American Pessimism Highest in Years
July 27th, 2006 | by Paul Merda |65% of Americans think that their children will NOT be better off than themselves.
58% don’t think the Iraq War will come to a successful conclusion for the US.
27% think the US is headed in the right direction.
81% do not think that things will get better for a long time.
53% think that the Israeli-Hizbollah conflict will lead to a major Mid-East War.
8 Responses to “American Pessimism Highest in Years”
By Dr. Forbush on Jul 27, 2006 | Reply
NPR has poll results out today with some good news. But we still have 100 days before the 2006 elections.
By Paul Galvanek on Jul 28, 2006 | Reply
Problem with polls and questions like these is that people make assumptions about the intentions of the respondents that aren’t always true.
For instance; When asked the wrong/right track question I respond wrong track. Abortion on demand, courts over turning expressed will of voters and imposing their view on “gay marriage,” courts attacking property right etc etc… The country is clearly on the wrong track.
Do I think my children will be better off than me? Of course not, I know they won’t. I know that the left has stood against every effort to reign in entitlement spending and saddled them wth 65.9 trillion in debt they will be crushed under. Their union dictated public school educations have left them ill equipped to compete in the world.
These are all reasons I voted to FOR Bush, will vote for Santorum and have switched from the Democrat party to the Republicans and vow never to again vote for anyone who is a Democrat.
By Paul Watson The Cranky Brit on Jul 28, 2006 | Reply
Right. That would be the Left that has control of the White House and both Houses of Congress for the last six years, would it? It wasn’t the Left that saddled your kids with debt, it was the Republicans.
By Sandy on Jul 28, 2006 | Reply
I have NEVER been polled. Never have any of my friends. I don’t trust or believe polls. They said Kerry won/was winning ’04. They are seldom accurate.
By Paul Galvanek on Jul 28, 2006 | Reply
Sorry Mr Watson, but the 65.9 trillion in debt is owed to Social Security and Medicare. Ronald Reagan tried to warn us about the coming disaster, Democrats lied and denied it existed. Democrats like Paul Tsongas tried to warn us about the problem, his party leaders lied and denied it was an issue. That 65.9 trillion in debt is 60 plus years of New Deal lies and corruption coming home to roost and it the global depressionit WILL cause is a problem created by the Democrats alone.
Socialism is a lie and we will shortly all pay for have believed it.
By Paul Galvanek on Jul 28, 2006 | Reply
So you believed the left and Deocrats did ya?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/07/14/cnusa14.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/07/14/ixcity.html
By HistoricalRecord on Aug 5, 2006 | Reply
Paul,
I understand your anger and sympathize with it. The fury in our country is ENORMOUS and growing for many rational, predictable, and understandable reasons. But, if you look back and read the record, you will see that Jimmy Carter raised SS taxes to help shore up funds for future expenses on Social Security spending in 1977 or 1978. That was responsible leadership providing a future for our retired citizens. Money that stays in the country benefits our citizens, but money that leaves the country is usually squandered and lost forever. That was a different time in America.
Taxpayer money should benefit citizens and not be foolishly wasted in overseas military jubilees in Iraq, Grenada, or installing puppet regimes like General Noriega, the Shah of Iran or Saddam in Iraq (whom we supported through the 1980’s in arms and business including poison gas). Thank you Rumsfeld! (Check out his snazzy December 20th, 1983 photo op with Saddam)
America has no business, authority, or right to intervene in the sovereign affairs of other nations. The extreme military force we’ve used from Korea to Vietnam to Grenada to Iraq has earned us enmity from the world community.
America’s Dark Ages began in 1981 with the election of Ronald Reagan and continue through stormy times this day. By the way, President Clinton is in this category for betraying the country through NAFTA and the WTO helping kick Americans out of work and lower wages and standards. Thank you Clinton!
America is capable of the greatest things in the world, but as long as the Republocratic party is in control we will be on a perpetual downward spiral of chaos, fear, increasing poverty, and perpetual war. Our biggest mistake as Americans is to continue to elect Democrats and Republicans and be pitted against each other as people. The Republocratic party with its 2 divisions divides and conquers the people as it pursues its own corporate enrichment agenda at the peoples expense.
A vote for Republicans or Democrats is a vote for the status quo and that’s not good enough for America or Americans anymore. Your vote is too valuable to throw away on politicians who don’t really care about you or the country.Vote for change in 2006.
By Paul Galvanek on Aug 6, 2006 | Reply
You’ve got to be joking, Jimmy Cart represented responsible leadership? I lived through the Carter administration, I remember the 9% unemployment, the 15% mortgage rates, the odd even gas rationing and other misery his increases in tax heaped upon our back. He was easily the worst president of my lifetime and I voted for the commie creep. Ronald Reagan was the best thing that happened to our nation.